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Best Practices: Some Guideline's for Meaningful Evaluation
Some tips for making student ratings work:
- Before beginning, know the purpose of the evaluation and who will use
the ratings.
- Include all stakeholders in decisions about evaluation process and
policy.
- Keep in mind a balance between individual and institutional needs.
- Publicly present clear information about the evaluation criteria,
process, and procedures.
- Establish legally defensible process and a system for grievances.
- Include resources for the improvement and support of teaching and
teachers.
- Build a real "system" for evaluation, not a haphazard and
unsystematic process.
- Establish clear lines of responsibility and reporting for system
administrators.
- Invest in the evaluation system and evaluate it regularly.
- Use, adapt, or develop instrumentation suited to institutional and
individual needs.
- Use multiple sources of information from several situations.
- Keep ratings data and validate the instruments used.
- Produce reports that can be easily and accurately understood.
- Educate the users of rating results to avoid misuse and
misinterpretation.
- Keep formative evaluation confidential and separate from summative
decision making.
- In summative decisions, compare teachers on the basis of data from
similar situations.
- Consider the appropriate use of evaluation data for assessment and
other purposes.
- Seek expert, outside assistance as needed.
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